Potters gathering clay at clay pits, near Ilorin

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

Clay pits just outside the city of Ilorin, and close to Ebu Dada, the biggest pottery production center. Potters are seen gathering clay, to which they will add a decomposed quartz-schist (called wuyan by the potters), which is dug nearby, or, alternatively, sand. This coarse-textured mixture has the best consistency for the molding and coiling methods that are used by Ilorin potters.

Collection

Ann O'Hear Collection

Archival grouping

Ann O'Hear Collection / Series 2: Pottery Technology in Ilorin

Catalog date

1988

Recorded places

Nigeria

Cataloged creator or photographer

O'Hear, Ann

Recorded subjects

Pottery

Format and extent

1 Slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)

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